[sclug] On ultra cheap machines

[Robin Smith]

I have an decent dual core pentium that flies on Arch Linux. Yours if you
collect. Throw in a beer if you want.

Cheers
Robin.


On 25 April 2013 18:04, David Given <dg at cowlark.com> wrote:

> My father's been complaining that his desktop PC is running very slowly,
> spending a lot of time swapping. After discovering that it's got 768MB
> RAM and maxes out at 1GB, I think out found out why.
>
> What's the current state-of-the-art in cheap and nasty PCs? He's not a
> gamer, and will use it mainly for some light DTPing and scanning and
> driving a printer, so it basically needs no performance whatsoever. It
> needs to run Linux and, um, Windows XP. The case is fine, so it probably
> just needs a new motherboard, CPU, RAM and hard drive.
>
> I'm totally out of touch with PC hardware: can you still get
> motherboards with integrated CPUs? Are they cost-effective? Any
> suggestions?
>
> (Mutter mutter. If he wanted an ARM box I'd know just what to get him.
> But no, he wants a frickin' PC...)
>
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